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Arc Studios & Gallery

July 7 - July 29, 2012

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1246 Folsom Street San Francisco, CA 94103
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WaterWorks Wavewatchers 1, photograph by Kirk Thompson
Work by members of the Bay Area Photographers Collective has been chosen for an exhibition entitled “WaterWorks,” to be shown at ARC Studios and Gallery in San Francisco. “WaterWorks” will open on July 7, with an Artists’ Reception from 7 to 9 PM. The show will run through July 28, 2012. Curator for the show is Ed Carey, Director and Owner of Gallery 291. Discussing the theme for the exhibit Carey said, “Few subjects in art history have been portrayed more frequently than water. From primitive cave drawings to the water wall in Bill Viola’s ‘Ocean Without a Shore’ video, water has captured the artistic imagination. “WaterWorks” represents water in multiple forms (fountains, oceans, rivers, puddles, pools) and many moods (from abstract, elusive, moody, mesmerizing, and transcendent, to literal and quotidian.) It is not difficult to understand the artist’s attraction. Water is beautiful, awe-inspiring, universal, mesmerizing, mutable, life giving and life sustaining, a source of recreation and pleasure, a luxury and a scarce and sacred resource. Our affinity to water is visual, sensual and tactile. And it is also essential. Our blood is chemically similar to seawater. Our bodies, like the surface of the planet, are both about sixty-five percent water. And our life form originated in water. We wonder how the meanings we find in these water images resonate with our eternal longing to return to our original habitat – the sea.” Ed Carey will give a talk on the exhibition “WaterWorks,” on July 28, 3 to 5 PM. Artists selected for the exhibit: Jack Androvich Henry Bowles Adrienne Defendi Anthony Delgado Malcolm Easton Linda Fitch Ingeborg Gerdes Steve Goldband Ralf Hillebrand Irene Imfeld Ellen Konar Barbara Kyne Eric Larson Thomas Lavin Erin Malone John Martin Charlotte Niel Heather Polley Ari Salomon Kirk Thompson Gary Weiner To see examples of the photographers’ work, please visit the Member’s Gallery: http://www.bapc.info/members-gallery/ July 7, 2012 – Exhibition Opens, Artists Reception, 7 PM to 9 PM July 28 – Curator talk, 3 to 5 PM July 28 – Exhibition Closes Reception and Curator talk are free. Arc Studios and Gallery is located at 1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 Arc’s regular business hours are Wednesdays and Thursdays 12-5 PM, Saturdays 12- 3 PM. See More Work by Selected BAPC Members off the Main Gallery in our “MarketPlace” display. Open Saturday night July 7, 7 to 9 PM during the opening reception and Saturday July 28, 12 to 5 PM.